Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinov'ev [Alexander Zinoviev] became a
philosopher by education and academic career, but, after Stalin's
death and the political events of the so-called Thaw,
he started his career as a man of letters.

Zinov'ev was born in Pakhtina, a village not far from Chukhloma
(Kostroma district), on 29th October 1922. He was the sixth of
eleven children. When Zinov'ev entered school, he was already
literate, and therefore started in the second grade. He could
recall entire pages of textbooks, and very soon became a remarkable
student. Reading and literature were his favourite school
disciplines. He especially liked the works of Mikhail Lermontov,
…

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